A person invents a material and calls it Bakelite. The capital 'B' is irrelevant. He patents the material. The next people acquire the formulas and call the same material Catalin. Naturally, it's no longer Bakelite; it's now Catalin. Never mind it's really the same material.

So now we have 111+ materials that aren't really Bakelite; they're just 111+ names for Bakelite. It's all crystal clear now!

It's obvious, and all the literature confirms it, that Bakelite is a "generic trade name" for a particular material, like nylon or aspirin or a zillion other things.